Self-indexing loose-leaf ledger.



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PETER Wi SCHWANDER, F HOUSTON, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO JOSEPH J. PASTORIZA, 0F HOUSTON, TEXAS.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 16, 1909.

Application filed July 30, 1908. Serial No. 446,166.

To all whom it 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, IE'rnn lV. SoHwAN- DER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Houston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Self-Indexing Loose-Leaf Ledger, of which the following is a specitication.

The invention relates to a self indexing loose leaf ledger.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of loose leaf ledgers, and to provide a simple, inexpensive and etiicient ledger of this character, which will separate accounts more completely than heretofore, and in which it will be impossible for accounts to group except where all of the initials of the names in the title are ident-ical.

A furtherobjeet of the invention is to provide a loose leaf ledger of this character having alphabetical indexing characters corresponding with the surname and the tr'st and second Christian names, or the primary or other names of a title, whereby the loose leaf ledger may be rapidly turned to the desired account.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in thc novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accoinpanyiiml drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings :-I `igure 1 is a plan view of a loose leaf ledger, constructed in accordlfig. 2 is a )lan View of a` portion of one of the loose sel indexing ledger leaves, illustrating the ar- `rangement of the vertical and horizontal alphabetical characters. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a portion of the loose leaf ledger turned to another page, and illustrating another operation of the indexing characters.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the 0 drawings.

The loose self indexing ledger leaves l are separated by division sheets 2, equipped with projecting tabs 3, bearing alphabetical characters corresponding with the initials of thetitles of the accounts.

The division sheets and the loose leaves may be bound or secured to the cover 4 of the ledger in any preferred manner, and as the construction for binding the loosev leaves in the cover does not constitute a portion of the present invention, a detail description thereof is deemed unnecessary.

Each loose leaf is equipped at its outer side edge with a vertical series 5 of alphabetie-al characters, and it has a horizontal series G-of alphabetical characters at the' bottom or lower edge. rl`he vertical series of alphabetical characters are designed to be trimmed olf or cut-away to present at the bottom of the remaining portion of the series, 'a letter corresponding withthe initial.

of the first Christian name of a title. The lower edge is designed to be trimmed off to present a letter corresponding to the initial of the second Christian name. Bythe terms cut-away and trimmed ott I contemplate any of the usual methods of removing the superfluous characters of the alphabetical series, as the sheets may be perforated or the characters separated by weakened lines to enable them to be readily torn off. It will thus be seen that by separating the titles of the accountsby means of the first and second Christian names, it will be impossible for accounts to group unless all three initials of the names in the titles ofthe ac-. counts are identical, which seldom occurs.

In Fig. l of the drawings, the name Albert A. Ames l is selectedfor convenience of illustration, the presence of three As in the title bringing the sheet to the front and the rest of the ledger being illustrated in plan View. The loose leaf bearing the title Albert A. Ames is turned to by lifting v.the project-ing tab on which is printed or otherwise marked the letter A. rlhe vertical column of the alphabetical characters at the free edge of the sheet is trimmed olf or cutaway so as to leave only the A remaining at the top of the series, and the horizontal series of alphabetical characters is correspondingly cut-away to leave only the A at the left hand side. The alphabetical characters designating the initials of the first and second Christian names may, however, be applied to the loose leaves in any desired manner, but it is preferable to equip each loose leaf with acoinplete vertical Series of alphabetical Vcharacters and a complete horizontal series of alphabetical characters,

- the projecting tab` R, the initial of the,

arranged at the free edge and at the bottom of the sheet as before explained, as this will enable a sheet to'be quickly prepared to correspond to the initials of the Christian names, the surname being indicated as before ex" plained by the letters of the projecting tabs of the division sheets. Should the initials of several names or titles correspond, which rarely occurs, vthe loose leaves Will be similarly cutl and Will appear at the same place in the ledger, and it will be necessary to turn them over successively 'until the desired account is reached. In preparing a sheet for the account of Il. M. Reynolds, the vertical series oi" alphabetical characters will be trimmed olli from the letter I from the bottom ofthe sheet, leaving the letter I-I at the lower' end of the vertical series, and the horizontal seriesv at the bottom of the loose leaf will be trimmed oli' so as to leavethe letter M at the right hand end of the remaining portion of the series. In turning to the account of H. M. Reynolds, first liit surname Reynolds; then look for il, the initial of the first Christian name, among the cut-away portions at' the side ci' the sheet, andvhaving opened the boolr at that pointlook for the letter M the initial of the secondV Christian name, among the cutaway portions at the bottom of theshcets. By opening the' book at this point the account of Il. M. Reynolds Will be disclosed, providing no other name having identically the -same initials Aoccurs in the ledger. Should the name or title of an account have only one Christian naine, the alphabetical series at the bottom of the loose leal Will he left. uncut and the names or titles having only one Christian name Tvill occur at the back of the series having both iirst and sec" ond Christian naines. l

In indexing. titles having no Christian names such as .Roseniield Drug Co., the ini tials D. 0.,'corresponding to DrugA Com i pany, are umd as a substitute, the sheet beingcut to present the letter D at the side edge and the letter C at the lower edge.

lhe vertical series of the alphabetical characters includes the et sign, which is used for separating from the other accounts naines or titles, such Wilson t Young. The t sign, which occurs iii both the vertical and horizontal series of the alphabetical characters, corresponds With and is adapted to be used analogous to pthe rst Qliristian name initial andalso to the secondltlhiistian name initial. Accounts having titles composed of two naines and connected by 8L will be divided from the other accounts in this manner. The second name fn the title corresponds with the second Christian naine, and the alphabetical series at the bottoni of the@ loose sheet is cut to correspond with the initial of the second naine. [is illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the loose lea'it bearing the name or title Wilson & Young is indexed under the divisionsheet having the projecting tab bearing the letter-"`W corresponding With .the name Wilson The lower right hand corner. of the loose leaf is trimmedto leave the t sign at the bottom of the alphabetical series, and the bottom of the loose leaf is trimmed to display the letter Y at the right hand end of the alphabetical series. The da sign oi. the bottom alphabetical series isemploycd as a third indexing symbol. For instance, in indexing titles such as Wilson, Young d: Co, the vertical alphabetical series Will be trimmed oil to correspond Awith the initial of the name Young Wand the horizontal alpliabetical series will be left With tlie' &7 sign at the right hand end to correspond with the & sign in the title.V The use of the et sign in indexing is of great advantage and serves to separate accounts that might otherwise bunch together.

, In large ledgers and other account books,

the loose leaves may also be equipped atrthe top with an alphabetical series of characters corresponding with the vowel letters or the second letters of the surnames, and if desired, the vertical alphabetical series may be applied to the left hand edge of the sheet, or to both edges. By theV terni ledger it will be understood that thc several indexing loose lcayes may be applied to various kinds of account books, such as invoice books, collection listsand various other record bool s.

llavinr thus fully described my invention, what I c aim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iszH l. seit indexing loose leali ledger com" )risingy division sheets having iroiectin I( o .y 1

tabs bearing alphabetical characters aru ranged in alphabetical order from il. to Z, and eelt ir .Xing loose ledger leaves adapted to be filletv ,.bet\\f'ecii the division. KVlacets, each series of leaves between the division sheets cach being provided at the side edge with' a serios of alphabetical characters reading in alphabetical order from the top to the bottoni of the ledger and cach adapted to be cut away to present aletter on the next adjacent series, said leaves being also provioed at the bottom. with a single series of alphabetical characters reading in alphabetical ordc'r and 'adapted to be cut away to present a letter on l the next adjacent leaf, the letters presented by each lentl defining the position oi the saine in the sets or series between the division sheets when thc said leaves are arranged in alphabetical order at both their side and bottoni edges.

A soli indexing loose leaf ledger including division sheets. provided with projecting tabs-bearing alphabclical characters to indicate the initial oi' a surname or the first naine oi? a lille, and soit indexing loose ledger 130" leaves arranged between the division Sheets I of 'the second Christian nameor the third ll0 and provided at their free. side edgeswith a Vnaine of a title.

single Vertical series of alphabetical charac- .ln testimony, that I clailn the foregoing ters ont away to indicate the initials ot the as iny own, I have hereto ailixed my signalirst Christian naine or the second name of ture in the presence of two witnoses.

a' title, said loose loaves being also provided PETER WV. SCI-DVA NBER.

at the bottoni with a single horizontal al r lVil'nesseS:

phabetical series arranged in alphabetical E. C. COCHRAN,

order and -ent away to indicate the initialfs` JAS. A. PAINTER. 

